Rain, melting snow means a soggy mess for Danbury area

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

"What we really needed was a squeegee the size of Texas,'' she said.

Throughout the region, the view was generally the same. Get a few inches of snow, top that with sleet and freezing rain, then add at least a couple of inches of rain, and you've got an unholy, highly saturated mess on your hands.

"If we get two inches of rain in any season, we can have problems,'' said Peter Hill, Ridgefield's highway superintendent. "Today, we had snow, sleet, ice and rain.''

The storm didn't cause any serious problems. But when plows cleared the road in the morning, they piled thick slush on the sides of the road. The slush clogged the storm drains and led to minor road flooding throughout the region.